McCartney to perform in Israel 43 years after ban
Some 43 years after a Beatles concert was -- according to popular belief -- banned by Israel, Paul McCartney has announced he'll perform there in September.
Paul McCartney says he's looking forward to playing a concert in Israel next month.
The show, which will be held September 25 in Tel Aviv, had been rumored for months....
In the mid-1960s, when the Fab Four from Liverpool, England, ruled the music charts, a concert in Israel was proposed. It never happened.
The long-told story maintained that Beatlemania was deemed too potentially injurious to Israel's youth. A more recent theory, however, blamed the ban on a tiff between competing concert promoters.
Whatever the reason, Israelis never got to experience The Beatles live.
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Paul McCartney says he's looking forward to playing a concert in Israel next month.
The show, which will be held September 25 in Tel Aviv, had been rumored for months....
In the mid-1960s, when the Fab Four from Liverpool, England, ruled the music charts, a concert in Israel was proposed. It never happened.
The long-told story maintained that Beatlemania was deemed too potentially injurious to Israel's youth. A more recent theory, however, blamed the ban on a tiff between competing concert promoters.
Whatever the reason, Israelis never got to experience The Beatles live.